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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

The high cost of the youth sports arms race

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

Talk Show, News, Npr, Daily, On Point

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Youth sports are supposed to be about fun and team spirit. But now, kids are training year-round and joining expensive travel leagues earlier. It’s costing families, and kids too.

About:

On Point is WBUR’s award-winning, daily public radio show and podcast. Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti leads provocative conversations that help make sense of the world.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

This is on point, I'm Meagnachach Rob Barti and today we're going to talk about youth sports.

0:36.0

So let's start with a former youth and a continuing athlete. Her name is Jennifer Howell and she joins us from Denver, Colorado.

0:43.5

Jennifer, welcome to Onpoint.

0:45.1

Hi, thank you for having me, Magna.

0:47.4

I hope you didn't mind that I called you a former youth.

0:50.9

I'd like to think I have a little bit of youth left.

0:54.0

Well, it's definitely still youthful.

0:59.0

That's what I'm going to put.

1:01.0

So tell me, you have played sports for a long time. What was the sort of the earliest

1:07.7

you got involved in athletics? Yeah, so I think I was round five or so.

1:16.4

My parents put me in just kind of like your community

1:20.9

recreational soccer league.

1:25.0

So I remember doing that for a little bit. I'm sure parents now are thinking of their kids with the, you know,

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